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Medium

What Does Fear Look Like in the Brain? How AI Uncovers the Many Faces of Fear

For Ajay Satpute, a social and affective neuroscientist at Northeastern University and a core faculty member at the Institute for Experiential AI (EAI), the best place to start is with a specific emotion: fear.
Freakonomics

Can Fear Be Good Medicine?

Ajay Satpute, professor of psychology at Northeastern University.

Ajay Satpute for Northeastern Global News

Three vintage dolls positioned in a triangle formation in dim lighting against a dark background, creating an unsettling atmosphere.

 Why Annabelle, Chucky and dolls in general creep us out

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert
Two people using an MRI machine.

Afraid of spiders? Heights? Public speaking? They activate different parts of the brain, Northeastern research finds

by Schuyler Velasco
Picture of the Asian giant hornet

The ‘murder hornet’ is out to get bees, not humans. So why are people still freaking out over it?

by Roberto Molar Candanosa
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But what role does the brain play in shaping subjective experience? Ajay Satpute, assistant professor in the College of Science, explores this puzzle through the interplay of psychology and neuroscience. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

Exploring emotion in the brain

by Allie Nicodemo